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From: Mark Baker <mnb20@aziraphale.pet.cam.ac.uk>
To: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
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Subject: Re: overwrite any file with updatedb
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In-Reply-To: <[🔎] 19980303162651.36575@kuolema>; from Martin Schulze on Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 04:26:51PM +0100
> This needs to be corrected. /etc/cron.daily/find runs as root. That's
> correct, but if yo u look into it, you'll find
>
> su nobody -c "updatedb"
>
> So on Debian systems it runs as 'nobody', too.
This must be a recent change then? /etc/cron.daily/find is a conffile,
however, so anyone who's changed it at all will probably still be using an
old version.
Mine still runs updatedb as root; although updatedb changes to a different
users to do the the find, it still does the sort as root.
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